[smc-discuss] Need help testing installer in Malayalam

[Praveen A]

2012/11/9 Balasankar Chelamattath <c.balasankar at gmail.com>:
> well, i have a doubt... what does "fonts not hinted" means??? what is
> hinting?

Hinting helps making fonts more readable, especially in small font
sizes. You can compare the same text in the installer and another
application like gedit (see the screenshots attached in the same bug
report). You can see text in the installer is not readable compared to
the one in gedit. Look at the marked sections here.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;filename=compare-with-gedit-1.png;att=2;bug=692533

Read more about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting

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